Côte d’Ivoire: Unusual escape of a drug trafficker in Abidjan
A drug trafficker, who was serving a 10-year prison sentence, escaped from the Abidjan prison on Thursday 16 June. And the circumstances of this escape […]
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Liberia to expand access to abortion
Liberian parliamentarians are preparing legislation to expand access to abortion, which is currently subject to severe restrictions that many women circumvent through clandestine and unsafe […]
Ivory Coast goalkeeper Gbohouo handed 18-month doping ban
Ivorian international goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo has been suspended until 23 June 2023 after testing positive for the banned drug trimetazidine on 16 November, Fifa’s disciplinary […]
Cocaine seized in Côte d’Ivoire: Some 30 people arrested!
Thirty people have been arrested in Côte d’Ivoire since the seizure in mid-April of more than two tons of cocaine in the port cities of […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Adama Bictogo elected speaker of National Assembly
Adama Bictogo, an executive of Côte d’Ivoire’s ruling party, was elected speaker of the National Assembly, with the support of majority and opposition deputies, one […]
Jean-Claude Kassi Brou appointed new Governor of the Central Bank of West African States
In Accra, an extraordinary summit of the eight countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA) was held on Saturday, June 4, in the wake […]
Eight soldiers killed in “terrorist” attack in northern Togo
At least eight Togolese soldiers were killed and thirteen wounded on Tuesday night in a “terrorist” attack in northern Togo, a first in the country […]
Death of the Head of the Ivorian National Assembly, Amadou Soumahoro
President of the Assembly since March 2019, he made long stays abroad in recent months for medical reasons. The president of the Ivorian National Assembly […]
Fight against desertification: COP 15 opens today in Abidjan
The objective of the COP15 which opens this Monday, May 9 in the Ivorian capital is to find ways to fight against the advancing desert, […]
Côte d’Ivoire: Abdoulaye Fofona, Guillaume Soro’s aide-de-camp arrested
A close friend of former Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, accused of plotting and living in exile for several years, has been arrested in Abidjan, […]